Leigh Rodriguez

Leigh Rodriguez is one of the industry’s most influential voices in Direct Sourcing and talent pipeline strategy. As the Senior Director and Business Leader for Direct Sourcing at AgileOne, she architects and leads global programs that help organizations hire smarter, faster, and with greater humanity, leveraging AI, automation, and deeply curated talent communities.

With 30 years of end-to-end Talent Acquisition experience, Leigh has transformed sourcing functions across the world, built powerhouse global teams, and generated more than $10 million in measurable cost savings for clients. Her work blends strategic workforce planning, technology enablement, brand storytelling, and operational rigor into a repeatable, scalable model that is redefining how companies attract talent. She is also the author of Strategic People Sourcing: How to Build a Sustainable Talent Pipeline, a groundbreaking book that gives TA leaders a blueprint for the future of sourcing. Known for her energy, candor, and bold point of view, Leigh speaks on stages to challenge norms, inspire action, and show organizations what’s truly possible when people and strategy come together.

Today’s talent isn’t raising their hands, they’re waiting to be inspired. In this session, Andrea Barré and Leigh Rodriguez reveal how to connect with passive talent and the key sourcing metrics that predict hiring success. Walk away with fresh tactics, smarter outreach approaches, and a data-informed framework for sourcing success in 2026. Practical, human-centered, and immediately usable for any TA team.

Talent scarcity, shifting worker expectations, and increasingly passive talent pools have changed sourcing forever. The old playbook of job boards, Boolean, and mass outreach no longer works. Today’s sourcers must operate as market analysts, storytellers, engagement strategists, and data translators all at once.

In this energizing and practical session, Andrea Barré and Leigh Rodriguez will reveal the new rules of modern sourcing: how top teams attract talent when candidates aren’t actively looking, what motivates passive individuals to engage, and how to stand out in an oversaturated digital world. You’ll learn how to build sourcing strategies rooted in human behavior, market signals, and brand perception, not guesswork.

But great sourcing isn’t only about technique; it’s about measuring the right things. Andrea and Leigh will break down the sourcing metrics that actually predict success in 2026, including pipeline health, conversion quality, effort-to-impact ratios, and candidate readiness scoring. You’ll walk away with a fresh sourcing mindset and a practical, modern measurement framework you can apply immediately.

Whether you lead a TA function or actively source every day, this session will help you rethink how to identify, attract, and measure great talent in a market where no one is truly “looking.”